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Break is the English name for 破, the seventh officer, and the word describes geometry. It is the branch directly across from the month's own, the 申 day in a 寅 month, and 協紀辨方書 卷四 defines that opposition as a clash. One day in every twelve sits there. 卷十 heads the entry 月破, the month's break, with 大耗, great depletion, as another name.

Two suited items appear, both drawn from the word: seeking a physician and pulling down walls or houses. The avoid list is the longest of the twelve and reaches through appointments, marriage arrangements, building, trade and burial. The editors explain that the virtue spirits lose force on this ground, so most of the list stands even when they coincide. They also added weddings to it, calling the old omission a poor compromise, and dropped bathing as too ordinary a matter to restrict.

選擇宗鏡 calls 破 great misfortune and 星厯考原 files it as unfavorable, so the two books agree here, as they do on several other officers. 卷四 still notes that the older 六韜 and 越絶 use the term in military and cosmological settings, and that the whole doctrine probably took shape in the Warring States. In the calculator 破 is simply position seven, with no exceptions applied. Where this list names illness, money or contracts, it reports the 1741 book and is no guidance; ask a doctor or another qualified person about real decisions.